* Average Party Level, a term used in Role Playing Games such as Dungeons & Dragons

Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).

* Aberration ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a creature type in the role-playing game

* 2009 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons ( b. 1947 )

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the amphisbaena is depicted as in traditional myth as a giant serpent with a head at both ends.

Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in Dungeons & Dragons ( although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, helping to visualize the game scenario ).

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

BRP was developed from a core set of attributes similar to the original Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ).

Similarly, authors of fantasy role-playing games sometimes compile bestiaries as references, such as the Monster Manual for Dungeons & Dragons.

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

For its time, the game was considered " light years " ahead of the Original Dungeons & Dragons.

Rather than the traditional format established by Dungeons & Dragons, which often involved the characters wandering randomly through caves or tunnels and fighting different types of monsters, Sandy Petersen introduced the concept of the Onion Skin: Interlocking layers of information and nested clues that lead the Player Characters from seemingly minor investigations into a missing person to discovering mind-numbingly awful, global conspiracies to destroy the world.

The d20 system also made it possible to use Dungeons & Dragons characters in Call of Cthulhu, as well as to introduce the Cthulhu Mythos into Dungeons & Dragons games.

* Charon ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a lord of the Yugoloths whose primary function is to provide passage across the River Styx for a steep price

* Chimera ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a magical beast in the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons

* Cyclops ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a giant in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons

* Chaotic Evil, an alignment in the tabletop game Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as D & D or DnD ) is a fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. ( TSR ).

Dungeons & Dragons is a structured yet open-ended role-playing game.

A typical Dungeons & Dragons game consists of an ' adventure ', which is roughly equivalent to a single story.

The Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game ( 2003 ) is sold as sets of plastic, randomly assorted, pre-painted miniatures, and can be used as either part of a standard Dungeons & Dragons game or as a stand-alone collectible miniatures game.

The game is similar to fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons, but draws more inspiration from games like RuneQuest.

Forseti appears in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game's pantheon, and is often chosen as a patron god by paladins.

Perhaps the most common approach to game design in MUDs is to loosely emulate the structure of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign focused more on fighting and advancement than role-playing.

* Under " Appendix: Variant Planes & Cosmologies " of the Dungeons & Dragons Manual Of The Planes ( 2000 ), is The Plane of Mirrors ( page 204 ).

The second modern role-playing game published, it was written by Ken St. Andre to be a more accessible alternative to Dungeons and Dragons and is suitable for solitaire, group, and play-by-mail / post gameplay.

As interest in the game is driven to a large extent by a highly devoted, small number of enthusiasts, there have also been several non-commercially published rules as well as systems to adapt the Tékumel setting to other pre-existing, commercially available role playing rules including RuneQuest, GURPS and third edition Dungeons and Dragons.

In Dungeons & Dragons and similar systems, clerics can attempt to " turn " undead by invoking their patron deities or channeling " positive energy " ( other-dimensional life energy, which animates and heals living creatures, and is the antithesis of negative energy, which animates and heals undead creatures.

Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, particularly the role playing games ( Advanced ) Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller ( which were all published by other games companies ), the magazine underwent a major change in style and content in the late 1980s and is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the wemic is a humanoid with the upper body of a leonine human and the lower body of a lion.

In Dungeons and Dragons Online, Xy ' zzy is the nigh-invulnerable raid boss in the Hound of Xoriat adventure.

There is still an area of her original castle in the basement of the House ( the Dungeons ), which is on view to visitors.

The Flanaess is the eastern part of the continent of Oerik, one of the four continents of the fictional world of Oerth in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game.

In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Oerth, pronounced as " Orth " ( long " o ") or " oyth ", is the name of the fictional planet on which one of the earliest campaign settings, the World of Greyhawk, is located.

The DM can either design an adventure on his or her own, or follow one of the many additional pre-made adventures ( previously known as " modules ") that have been published throughout the history of Dungeons & Dragons.

Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008 ) was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ) with Dave Arneson.

Gygax agreed to develop a set of rules with Arneson and get the game published ; the game eventually became known as " Dungeons & Dragons ".

Within the context of the Dungeons & Dragons game, the drow were forced underground in what is now known as the Underdark after the great war amongst the elves, a vast system of caverns and tunnels spanning much of the continent.

* Mechanus, also known as Nirvana, an alternate name for the Lawful Neutral spiritually aligned outer plane in Dungeons & Dragons

Monte Cook is an American professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer, best known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons.

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Baator, also known as the Nine Hells of Baator or the Nine Hells, is a lawful evil-aligned plane of existence.

In the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, Mount Celestia is known as Celestia, the Radiant Throne.

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Bytopia, also known as the Twin Paradises ( bi-+ utopia ) or more fully, the Twin Paradises of Bytopia is a lawful good / neutral good aligned plane of existence.

The best known example of a retro-clone game is OSRIC, which contains the rules for 1st edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, yugoloths ( formerly known as daemons ) are neutral evil natives of the lower planes of the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna and the Gray Waste of Hades.

Deities & Demigods ( abbreviated DDG ), alternatively known as Legends & Lore ( abbreviated L & L or LL ), is a reference book for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game ( D & D ).

Erol Otus is an American artist and game designer, known internationally for his contributions to the fantasy RPG genre, most notably for the early Dungeons & Dragons franchise.

In Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy roleplaying games, a death knight ( also known as a doom knight or demon knight ) is a mighty warrior animated as an undead creature by the gods of death, evil deities, demon lords, or other malevolent forces.

The Time of Troubles, also known as the Arrival, Godswar, and Avatar Crisis, is a fictional time period in the chronology of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game.

He was well known by some as the main villain Venger in the animated series of Dungeons and Dragons.

Elaine Cunningham ( born August 12, 1957 ) is an American fantasy and science fiction author, especially known for her contributions to the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game campaign setting of Forgotten Realms, including the realms of Evermeet, Halruaa, Ruathym and Waterdeep.

In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for Dungeons and Dragons, an organization known as the Cult of the Dragon is responsible for inventing the method of the dracolich creation.

Io is also known as The Super Dragon God or The Great Dragon or The Great One in Basic Dungeons & Dragons.

EverQuest: Lost Dungeons of Norrath ( also known as LDoN ) was the sixth expansion pack for the EverQuest MMORPG.

In response to bootlegging and other economic issues of RPGs, Wizards of the Coast released an Open Gaming License adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons, known as the d20 System.

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Gruumsh, also known as Gruumsh One-Eye, is the patron deity of orcs, who regard him as the god of Conquest, Survival, Strength, and Territory.

She is mostly known for her work commissioned by Magic: The Gathering, White Wolf Publishing, and DC Vertigo comics, World of Warcraft TCG, Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons and Bella Sara TCG.

However, a version of Birthright is being constructed for use with the Revised Third Edition of Dungeons and Dragons rules ( also known as D & D 3. 5e ) and hosted at Birthright. net.